Francisco Aragón

Café Central

(english version)



Plaza del Ángel, Madrid

De los tres
    el que está de pie, un danés--
ligeramente inclinado, abrazando

    suavamente, por detrás, las caderas
de su instrumento de madera,
    sus dedos castigando las cuerdas ace-

lerándose minetras gruñe
    de forma apenas audible
las notas de su solo

    dentro de la pieza, su frente
reluciente
    cerca del techo... hasta que dirije

una mirada al catalán
    que está ante
el teclado, que no ve nada

    con o sin esas gafas
de sol: como si
    le dijera suplicando ¡Recu-

pérame!
Así que a; tronar dedo
    y pulgar-enciendo la mecha-
músico y contrabajo

    descienden entre piano
y batería, cerniéndose
    al final los tres

a salvo sobre el suelo otra vez

a Tete Montoliu (1933-1997)


Francisco Aragon is a native of San Francisco and the former editor of The Berkeley Poetry Review. He is the author of Light, Yogurt, Strawberry Milk (Chicano Chapbook Series 1999) and its expanded bilingual version, Jugglers y otros poemas (Momotombito 2002). He holds degrees in Spanish from The University of California - Berkeley and New York University, respectively, and an MA in English from The University of California - Davis, where he was awarded an Academy of American Poets Prize. A longtime resident of Madrid, Spain, his work has appeared in the anthologies, American Diaspora: Poetry of Displacement (University of Iowa 2001) and Inventions of Farewell: A Book Displacement (W.W. Norton 2001), as well as numerous journals, including Puerto del Sol, Luna and the online journal, Jacket. He is the founding editor of Momotombo Press, whose inaugural volume was Mark My Words: Five Emerging Poets. He is currently a fellow at the University of Notre Dame, where he is completing his MFA.







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